Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

Opportunity knocks but once.

When I was modeling as a teenager, I just ignored it when people said to lose two inches off my hips. I had more jobs than I could take. So why would I even want more?

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

You are a masterpiece of creation.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.